After the launch and good reception of the previous Quadra and Duo pedalboards from Mod Devices , the company founded by Gianfranco Ceccolini in Brazil in 2014, and now based in Berlin, has just started a campaign in Kickstarter to present its new MOD Dwarf . With such success that they have managed to finance the project in a single day exceeding € 100,000 of the objective they had set for a whole month.

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Like its predecessors, this MOD Dwarf is an open source system that combines an analog-digital hybrid hardware and an intuitive graphical interface, with great processing power capable of accommodating a wide range of effects, virtual instruments, amplifier simulators and MIDI utilities, with hundreds of free and commercial plugins created by independent developers, and ready to download from a catalog that keeps growing.

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Right now there are 45 amplifiers, 70 screens, more than 180 effects, and dozens of virtual instruments and MIDI utilities ready to install. Not counting several hundreds of beta-phase plugins that will be added progressively.

The Dwarf MOD engine is a 64-bit Quad-core ARM CPU running at 1.3GHz, with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of storage, of which its creators ensure that it does not have the restrictions on the number of modules that you can run at the same Time as with other multi-effects: "Do you want three delays, four pitch shifters, five distortions and three amplifiers in the same patch? No problem . " Says its director Gianfranco Ceccolini.

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The device has two independent audio channels , each equipped with separate gain controls, to which we can assign any effect and modify / rewind the signal path easily from a smartphone, tablet or computer . In live we can also edit the effects without a computer using its screen, the 3 assignable potentiometers and buttons, and the 3 footswitch, and use the MOD as a multi-effect pedalboard tailored to our needs.

Although originally designed with guitarists and bassists in mind, the numerous connections of the unit (dual / stereo inputs and outputs, USB, MIDI, headphone output ...), allow you to connect keyboards, synthesizers, microphones, sequencers, drum machines and Even MP3 players.

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Main Specifications:

Configurable gain of inputs and outputs
Two independent audio channels (stereo or dual mono) usable in balanced and unbalanced mode
TRS MIDI In / Out Connections
ARM Quad-core 64-bit 1.3GHz CPU, 8 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM
Built-in tuner
USB-host port for peripherals and Bluetooth (expandable with a USB hub)
USB port for connection to the computer
Control Chain port for MOD peripherals
Headphone output
Internal modular connection: split, join, feed back and freely reorganize the signal chain
MOD Dwarf is built in Germany and is scheduled for commercial launch at the end of the year with a prospect of selling 1,000 units in advance.